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Fol. Biol. 2007, 53, 50-57

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2007053020050

Expansion of Human Mesothelial Progenitor Cells in a Long- term Three-dimensional Organotypic Culture of Processus Vaginalis Peritonei

A. Rosellini1, M. Michelini1, G. Tanda1, V. Mandys2, Roberto P. Revoltella1

1Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Immunobiology and Cell Differentiation Unit, CNR, Pisa, Italy
2Department of Pathology, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Received February 2007
Accepted March 2007

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